I was recently working in a lab environment trying to register the vCenter Operations 5.6 virtual appliance into a vCenter Virtual Appliance environment. As a standard practice I like to issue CA signed certificates to everything — even in a lab environment — so I’ll know what to expect in production. <\/p>\n
Even after replacing the SSL certificate (here are some instructions on that process: http:\/\/www.bussink.ch\/?p=458<\/a>) you’ll still get an SSL warning because the plugin is registered by IP address instead of DNS name. There is another great article here: http:\/\/www.vstable.com\/2012\/04\/02\/vcenter-operations-5-x-vcenter-plugin-uses-ip-instead-of-dns-hostname\/<\/a> that includes a two step process to resolve the warnings.<\/p>\n Step 1 is easy and very straight forward…you use vi or some other text editor to update a file on the UI virtual appliance. The second step is a little more challenging because I’m working with the vCenter Virtual Appliance and the embedded database, making the required database changes a bit tougher. Since the article described where to find this value in the Managed Object Browser, I figured I could find and update it from PowerCLI.<\/p>\n This code is fairly straightforward. A refresh of the MOB shows that this updated value is immediately available — even without a restart of the vCenter Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was recently working in a lab environment trying to register the vCenter Operations 5.6 virtual appliance into a vCenter Virtual Appliance environment. As a standard practice I like to issue CA signed certificates to everything — even in a … Continue reading \r\n$exMgr = Get-View ExtensionManager\r\n$vcops = $exMgr.ExtensionList | ?{$_.key -eq 'com.vmware.vcops'}\r\n$vcops.Server[0].Url = \"https:\/\/vcops-ui\/vcops-vsphere\/viClientConfig.xml\"\r\n$exMgr.UpdateExtension($vcops)\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
\nLine 1: Use Get-View to connect to the ExtensionManager where vSphere plugins are registered.
\nLine 2: Find the vCOps plugin and make a copy of all the properties to a variable called $vcops.
\nLine 3: Update only the Server URL to use a name instead of an IP address
\nLine 4: Use the ExtensionManager connection from line 1 to write the updated $vcops extension back to vCenter<\/p>\n